Measuring social learning in participatory approaches to natural resource Management

Environmental Policy and Governance

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-15

  Van Der Wal, Merel ^a   De Kraker, Joop ^a   Offermans, Astrid ^b   Kroeze, Carolien ^a,c   Kirschner, Paul A ^a   van Ittersum, Martin ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Cultural Theory; Natural resource management; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894269125     PISSN: 1756932X     EISSN: 17569338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eet.1627     Document Type: Article

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